Jen Psaki's Snarky Comments Can't Cover for the FDA's Rapid Testing Approval Failures
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If all the Build Back Better plan's proposals were made permanent, the final price tag would be $4.8 trillion and the bill would add about $2.8 trillion to the deficit.
Biden’s presidency is already failing. Build Back Better wouldn't help.
Only about 100 Afghans who have applied for temporary admission to the U.S. have been approved.
California, which offers some of the most generous pension benefits in the country to its public workers, apparently isn't paying them handsomely enough, the federal Department of Labor says.
The IRS' track record suggests that beefed up enforcement will also mean more trampling of Americans' due process rights.
The president should be more worried about inflation, and government responsibility for it, than he's acting.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the tax will raise nearly $8 billion over the next 10 years. That money will come out of consumers' wallets.
The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the bill is unlikely to prevent its passage through the House. A vote could happen later tonight.
Instead of taking his own actions to undo an unlawful order from the former chief executive, President Joe Biden had the government's attorneys argue in favor of even greater trade powers for the White House.
The agency is staying in its lane—for now.
In denying the former president's claims of executive privilege, a federal judge sets a blueprint which should apply to sitting presidents as well.
Harris' attempts at evolving her political image away from being a law-and-order prosecutor have been disingenuous and unconvincing.
The National School Boards Association considers aggrieved parents essentially "domestic terrorists," and the FBI agreed to crack down on them.
The proposed vaping tax has caused a third Democrat to join Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in opposing the bill.
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The one thing that would most help increase efficiency at America's lagging ports is also the one thing that Biden's union allies dislike the most.
It's Biden's bill, but Trump helped set the stage.
The stay may only last a very short time. But it does suggest the judges think the plaintiffs have a serious case to make against the mandate.
It's one of the most expensive legislative packages in American history, but the $1.2 trillion bill will end up doing far less than it otherwise could have.
The rule just issued by OSHA has fewer legal flaws than the initial plan floated by the White House. But it's still problematic, and could set a dangerous precedent if upheld by courts.
Removing the cap on the state and local tax deduction would be a massive tax break for wealthy Americans who choose to live in high-tax states.
Biden will allow 3.3 million metric tons of European-made steel to be imported annually without tariffs. After that, Trump's 25 percent tariffs will remain in force.
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"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward, but I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country," Manchin says.
These schools are already extremely accessible to low-income students. Don’t mess with their flexibility.
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Manchin's $1.5 trillion plan is still bigger than the Obama stimulus, and would be a major expansion of government's power to redistribute wealth.
End the mask mandates now.
"You have showers where I can't wash my hair properly. It's a disaster!" said Trump in 2015.
The Trump-era border measure relegated 70,000 migrants to dangerous conditions in Mexico while they awaited immigration court dates.
Title 42 expulsions are a cruel and indiscriminate pandemic mitigation measure.
But the people in power won’t even say as much, let alone do something about it.
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Omarova's starry-eyed view of the Soviet Union and interest in giving far more power to the Federal Reserve should not inspire confidence.
The trade deficit is now the widest on record too.
Governments may not be able to make an economy, but they've proven they can break it.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai stresses the need for American competitiveness at the same time that the White House is pushing huge tax increases on U.S. businesses. And that's just the start.
President Joe Biden apparently thinks it's wrong for corporations to locate their headquarters in low-tax places like Bermuda, Ireland, and Switzerland. Did he learn nothing from living in Delaware?
Under Biden, Democrats have decided that their agenda has no costs and no tradeoffs.
Repealing the cap on the SALT deduction would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest households in America.
Democrats are now relying on the same "dynamic scoring" technique they've previously criticized.
There’s no clean way this applies to the pandemic.
But spending more would be a bigger mistake. Sometimes, there simply isn't a government solution to a problem.
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